Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723bs: align comments

[Joe Perches]

On Wed, 2021-03-10 at 20:48 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> You need to have a space character after the '*'.

Perhaps YA checkpatch test...
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index f42e5ba16d9b..0de553d52605 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3876,6 +3876,21 @@ sub process {
 			}
 		}
 
+# Independent comment lines should have a space after the comment initiator
+		if ($line =~ /^\+[ \t]*($;+)/) {		#leading comment
+			my $comment = trim(substr($rawline, $-[1], $+[1] - $-[1]));
+			if ($comment =~ m{^(/\*|\*/|\*|//)(.*)}) {
+				my $init = $1;
+				my $rest = $2;
+				if ($init =~ m{^(?:/\*|\*|//)$} &&
+				    $rest ne '' &&
+				    $rest !~ /^[\s\*=\-]/) {
+					WARN("COMMENT_STYLE",
+					     "Comments generally use whitespace after the comment initiator\n" . $herecurr);
+				}
+			}
+		}
+
 # check for missing blank lines after struct/union declarations
 # with exceptions for various attributes and macros
 		if ($prevline =~ /^[\+ ]};?\s*$/ &&